African Modernities

Entangled Meanings in Current Debate

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

This is a collection of original studies investigating the multifaceted notion of African modernities.The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity as well as the implication of its meaning in current acadamic debate. Both perspectives are thoroughly interdependent, but they are often presented as distinct and opposed to each other. One of the main aims of this volume is to show just how they are related, and how they form a deeply entangled subject that continues to shape and affect the notion of modernity in Africa.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-06-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:316 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:James Currey
ISBN:9780852557921

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Recensioner i media

The value of African modernities is that it brings together a range of scholars hailing from different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, history, literature and philosophy), all attempting to think through the paradox of present-day Africa...Since there is no single answer, insights are generated by judicious questioning rather than by simplistic conclusions.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction - cherished visions and entangled meanings, Jan-George Deutsch et al; West Africa - modernity and modernization, Richard Rathbone; Kenyatta, God and the modern world, John Lonsdale; dislocation, memory and modernity - the prophet Isaiah Shembe and the search for voice and space, Liz Gunner; images of an African modernity - the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya, Heike Behrend; governmentality, materiality, legality, modernity - on the colonial state in Africa, John Comaroff; reason, modernity and the African crisis, Simon Gikandi; modernization theory, modernization and African modernities - an outsider's view, Wolfgang Knobl.